Module 2 Review: Europeans Set Sail

The French explorer who claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France, naming it Louisiana after King Louis XIV.

Searched for the “Fountain of Youth”

What is the term for the device that enabled navigators to learn their position charting the stars?

The name of the ruler of Portugal who built a school for navigators, funded explorations, but never went on a voyage?

What means to go all the way around the globe?

The French Protestants were called Huguenots.

Sir Walter Raleigh received a charter, or a document giving him permission to start a colony, from the Queen of England.

Spain, France, England, and the Dutch were the countries racing for empires in the New World

This is the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between he Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa

This Portuguese explorer was the first to sail to India & back going around the tip of Africa

What was an imaginary line drawn by the Pope that gave Spain new lands to the west and Portugal new lands to the east?

This English explorer sailed under the flags of TWO different countries; the Dutch in 1609 & the English in 1610-11.

The French explorer who founded the city of Quebec & whose explorations led to French land claims in Canada.

conquered the Incan Empire

Conquered the Aztec Empire

Which explorer was actually the first European to “discover” the New Wolrd?

Discovered the Mississippi River

What is the term for the ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind, and rudders to improve steering?

The Spanish Armada WON the battle against the English because they had more ships

Searched for the "7 Cities of Gold" but found the Grand Canyon

Even though he died in the Philippines, whose crew made it all the way around the world and was the first ship to do so?

Leader of the Inca Empire

What country agreed to finance Columbus’ journey to the New World?

Leader of the Aztec Empire

The Northwest passage was a water route that WAS FOUND from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans